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Tehàma Golf Club (/ t ə ˈ h eɪ m ə / tə-HAY-mə) is a private golf club outside of Carmel Valley, California owned by Clint Eastwood and is part of the Tehàma private community. Designed by golf architect Jay Morrish , ASGCA and opened in 1999, the private course features 6,506 yards (5,949 m) that overlook the Pacific, and it is ...
His first project as a golf course architect was redesign of the Carmel Valley Country Club in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach, California. [5] He designed over 75 golf courses around the world, but his best-known work is located in the western United States.
On February 25, 1968, Gordon Knott and Nick Lombardo took a 55-year lease on 226 acres (91 ha) in Carmel Valley to open a 45-hole golf course. The name golf course was going to be Rancho Caňada de la Segunda, the name of the original Spanish land grant. The name was shorted to Rancho Caňada a year later. [12]
Carmel Valley Airfield is a defunct airfield that was a privately owned airpark in Carmel Valley from 1941 to 2002. [24] The airport was later called the Carmel Valley Vintage Airfield. The historical resources commission found that development of the site was important as it represented the first planned residential airpark in the United ...
Cypress Point Club was ranked #2 on Golf Magazine's 2011 List of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World [10] and #5 on Golf Digest's 2011–12 list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses. [11] The golf course is considered one of the most exclusive in the world. [12] Non-members require the invitation of a member to play. [12]
Holman Ranch was originally part of the Rancho Los Laureles, a 6,625-acre (26.81 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California.The ranch passed through many hands until 1928, when San Francisco businessman, Gordon Armsby, purchased 400 acres (160 ha) in Carmel Valley, California, that would become the Holman Ranch.
In 1976, Landmark opened the Oak Tree Golf Club in Oklahoma, designed by Pete Dye. [5] This was soon followed by Belle Terre Country Club in Louisiana, and the La Quinta Resort and Club and Carmel Valley Ranch, both in California. During the next 30 years Landmark built 17 more courses with Dye. [citation needed]
Pebble Beach hosted the first California Women's Amateur Championship in 1967 as well as subsequent tournaments until it was moved to Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel Valley in 1987. [15] The first professional tournament at Pebble Beach was the Monterey Peninsula Open in 1926, which had a $5,000 purse.